Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite

pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.

This is your host, DJ Louis X.

Reminding you to please rate, review, and subscribe to Pop Pantheon wherever you get your podcast. Follow us on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod and me at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V by merch in our store at Poppantheon pod.com. And of course, join our Patreon Pop Pantheon All Access, where we offer at least three bonus episodes of the show per month.

Also, we are compiling Pantheon reassessment calls from you guys.

At some point in the coming weeks, Russ and I are going to go through all of the Pantheon

rankings from the last year, and we want to hear from you about what we got wrong.

Normally, I actually don't want to hear what you guys think I got wrong, but this time I would like to. So if you are upset about where your

fave ended up in the pop pantheon and you have a good argument as for why, send us voice notes

or written emails to Poppantheon pod at gmail.com and we will potentially be addressing them on

that episode.

Lastly, my queer pop party, gorgeous, gorgeous is having its last installment of the year

on December 16th at Resident in downtown Los Angeles.

Tickets for that will be available in the show notes of this episode.

Okay, so this is a big series for us.

We are launching the first of a three-part series today on the legendary Miss Mariah Carey. This series will be broken up as follows. The first episode will chronicle her early life through the release of her seminal fourth album, 1995's Daydream. We'll pick up next Thursday with her 1997 album Butterfly through

the disaster that is glitter and charm bracelet from 2002. And then the third episode will pick up

with her comeback album from 2005, The Emancipation of Mimi through the present day. And we will, of course, rank her in the Pop Pantheon. I also want to point out that we will be doing a Patreon episode, which will come out on Monday that is chronicling Mariah's rise to the queen of Christmas. We'll be talking about all I want for Christmas is you. We'll be talking about her position in the Pantheon of Holiday Classics, And all the rest of Mariah's Christmas-related accoutremaud,

will be available in an episode dropping on Patreon this Monday.

So, without further ado, here is the first installment of our Mariah Carey three-parter.

Thank you. The upper rungs of the pop pantheon are littered with some great singers whose voices have rocked our cores and conjured the divine, Aretha, Whitney, and Beyonce, just to name a few.

It's also home to some legendary songwriters whose words are carved into our psyches and have to find cultural idioms for generations.

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